This is an analysis of A Broken Appointment by Thomas Hardy.
You did not come,
And marching Time drew on, and wore me numb.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: AabcXcaA DXbabadD
- Stanza lengths: 8,8,
- Metre: 1011 1101111111 1111011101 1111110011 1101011100 0101110001 11110110101 1011 1111 1101111100 1111011001 0101010111 10110101011 0110110101 01011110100 1111
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 2
- Lines: 16
Anaphora
you, to
